摘要
In stripes and patches, the sugarcane fields of China＇s subtropics are vast and far-reaching, the migrant workers moving from village to village, local farm to local farm, following the work, following the harvest. Where sugarcane is grown in China, they leave their footprints. In the harvest season, it is common at dawn and sunset to see small vehicles packed with farm workers going to and from the canelands. With early spring, the sugarcane harvest draws thousands of workers of Miao and Shui ethnicity from Guizhou, Hunan, and Guangxi southward to Leizhou in Guangdong province to work harvesting sugarcane on local fan,as.
每年,从初春到清明,恰逢亚热带地区的甘蔗收割,成千上万主要来自贵州、湖南、广西的水族、苗族等少数民族农民工,像'候鸟'一样拖家带口成群结队甚至全家、全村成'建制'地准时来到广东省的雷州半岛,帮助当地农场或蔗农砍收甘蔗,挣取劳务收入。改革开放后,雷州半岛的蔗糖产业迅猛发展,种蔗面积逐步扩大,原有国营农场或解散或转制,原有的种蔗劳动力大量流失。每逢砍蔗季当地劳动力就很紧张,于是外来务工者的季节性流动补缺已成为市场需求。在当地。
